Rommel's report was interrupted by applause and shouts, and the more than 100 generals who attended the meeting were convinced and convinced, and Rommel applauded and applauded his brilliant report. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Rommel's report has made it very clear, and euphemistically told all the generals present what should be done? What should be done to the people of the occupied territories.

Rommel was admonishing all the generals present not to carry out a high-handed and discriminatory policy against the people in the occupied territories, which was tantamount to forcing the Soviet people, who were extremely dissatisfied with Stalin, back to Stalin's camp.

Rommel had decided to implement a policy of national elimination in all the occupied territories, especially in the Soviet Union, but the situation in the vast countryside of the Soviet Union was very peculiar, such as the collective farms.

First of all, the Soviet people in the collective farms were to be rescued, and then twenty acres of land were allocated to each of them. Rommel satisfied the thirst of the Soviet peasants for land, and he could definitely win the support of the Soviet people.

Of course, under such circumstances, there will be no soil for the survival of partisans on the lands occupied by Germany in the USSR, and at the same time, the productive enthusiasm of the Soviet people will be brought into play.

In fact, Germany also had a certain advantage in the early stage of the war, the three Baltic countries were forced by the Soviet Union to join the Soviet Union, the Poles hated the Soviet Union because of the Soviet Union's stab in the back during the German-Polish war, and the Ukrainians were also very disgusted with the Soviet regime, seeing the German army as liberators, welcoming them with salt and bread.

Another trick is that the Soviets can elect their own leaders, of course, this election is absolutely fair on the surface, Rommel just needs a puppet regime, and the political, military, and economic aspects of the occupied territories must be in the hands of Germany.

At this pre-war military conference, Rommel repeatedly emphasized military discipline, the most important of which were preferential treatment of prisoners and good treatment of civilians. After the meeting, the generals and officers attending the meeting immediately rushed to their respective combat posts on the front line.

After the meeting, Rommel returned to his office and carefully compared and analyzed the current and historical "Barbarossa Plan", and also made some conclusions:

Germany's superiority also added a number of chips to Germany's victory over the Soviet Union:

1. Strategic suddenness:

Germany and the Soviet Union signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" on the eve of the Polish War in September 1939, and then the Soviet Union and Germany divided Poland, until the eve of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war in 1941, the economic, trade and technological exchanges between the Soviet Union and Germany have always been relatively close, and Germany even sold some new equipment to the Soviet Union to show friendship.

In order to conceal their strategic intentions, the Germans prepared to hold military exercises on the Romanian border during the secret build-up to the Soviet-German border, creating the illusion of the Soviet Union.

The Germans were making a big deal of propaganda about their hatred of Britain, and Germany distributed British maps to its troops, equipped them with English interpreters, prepared landing equipment, and held landing exercises, creating the false impression that German troops were about to land in Britain, in an effort to draw the world's attention in the above direction.

Germany also mobilized German troops in Finland, Romania, and other countries under the pretext of "training," "changing guards," and "borrowing routes."

The Soviet leadership, led by Stalin, recognized the growing possibility of war between the Soviet Union and Germany, and took measures such as building an eastern front, strengthening the army, and fortifying the border.

However, there was still a paralyzing mentality, a fluke mentality, and a misjudgment of the strategic situation, believing that Germany would not attack the Soviet Union so quickly, which objectively caused the army to be underprepared for the Soviet-German war psychologically and materially. So much so that at the present moment when the war is about to break out, the troops are still not instructed to immediately enter the first level of combat readiness.

2. Military superiority:

At the time of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Germany had concentrated more than 5.5 million armed forces, equipped with more than 7,600 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 50,000 artillery pieces, more than 8,000 aircraft, and more than 210 ships, and organized into 244 divisions, of which 49 were armored or motorized divisions and 37 were servant national divisions.

In addition to the valuable war experience gained by Germany in the White Plan, the Nordic War, the Yellow Plan, the African Campaign, and other wars, the use of blitzkrieg warfare was close to perfection, and the quality of the troops was extremely high and the morale was strong, and it is no exaggeration to say that the German army at that time was the most powerful army in the world.

At that time, the total strength of the Soviet Union was more than 5 million, including more than 300 divisions, more than 7,000 tanks, 100,000 artillery pieces, and nearly 20,000 aircraft. However, the Soviet army was understaffed, poorly qualified, lacking in equipment, and backward in weapons, and in fact was not fully prepared for war.

The total strength of the Soviet army deployed on the western border was about 2.7 million men in more than 170 divisions, 1,800 tanks, 35,000 artillery pieces, and 1,600 aircraft, and the ratio of German offensive strength was about 1:3, which was at an absolute disadvantage. Moreover, the Soviet army's war thinking was relatively backward, and it had not completely jumped out of the thinking of trench warfare in the First World War.

The whole world has seen from the victory of the German blitzkrieg the astonishing power of modern mechanical warfare that can turn the clouds and rain in an instant and decide victory or defeat, but no other country has had time to adjust the construction, establishment, equipment, ideology, tactics, and training of the armed forces to a mode that suits modern warfare.

In addition, the Soviet army's purge at the end of the 30s left the Soviet army with a lot of wounds, a large number of experienced senior generals and key military personnel were executed, and the general lack of ability and experience of substitute officers seriously undermined the Soviet army's combat effectiveness. In the Soviet-Finnish War, the Soviet Union invested millions of troops and made heavy sacrifices to defeat Finland, which was a small country and a small army, which shows the heavy blow of the Great Purge to the Soviet army.

3. Strategic Situation:

Before the war against the Soviet Union, Germany had already organized a strategic alliance against the Soviet Union, including Finland, Hungary, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey and other countries, all of which sent troops to varying degrees to participate in the war against the Soviet Union.

From north to south: The armies deployed on the territory of Finland, German East Prussia, former Poland, Hungary, and Romania formed a crescent-shaped encirclement of the Soviet Union. The multi-pronged offensive forces were strong and the assault forces were concentrated, all of which were directed at the vital points of the Soviet Union.

In contrast to Germany, the Soviet Union was in an extremely isolated position internationally: the non-aggression pact with Germany was also cut off from all hopes of joining forces with Britain and other countries, and the attack on Finland resulted in the expulsion of the Soviet Union from the League of Nations.

The Soviet Union carved up Poland with Germany, forced the three Baltic states to join the Soviet Union, and issued ultimatums to force Romania to surrender Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina.

In addition, the Soviet troops deployed on the western border were too far forward and lacked sufficient depth. In the early days of the Soviet-German War, the Soviet army was surrounded and annihilated as a whole army and division, and the number of troops lost was as high as one million.

Based on the above factors, Rommel showed that the German army did have sufficient ability to annihilate the vast majority of the Soviet armed forces, occupy three strategic cities in the north, center, and south, advance to the front line of the Ural Mountains, and accomplish the goals set by the "Barbarossa Plan." (To be continued.) )